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Mr. W OUL FE opposed their omission. Lord MORPETII said that as it appeared the words were unnecessary. he had no objection to their being struck out. Mr. PEASE wished it to be understood that the words were struck out, not as being unnecessary, but for the purpose of encouraging capitalists to invest their money in mills and simi lar si.eculations. Sir E. SUI,IDEN agreed with the lion. Member who spoke last. lie thought the Noble Lord hid not allowed the omission of the words on proper grounds. After a few verbal amendments the clause was agreed to. Clause 61 was agreed to. On clause 62 being proposed, that existing surveys were to be used, if sufficient ; and, if not, guardians to cause surveys to be made, Sir R. FERGUSON moved, as an amendment, that the Ordnance surveys should be used, to avoid the expenses of a new survey. On which the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause ... For the amendment Majority for the clause —23 The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. The Chairman left the chair, and obtained leave to report progress, and the House resumed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of. DUTY ON GLASS. Mr. BARING obtained leave to bring in a Bill to con solidate and amend the laws for the collection of the duties Oil glass. POST OFFICE. CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better government of her Ma jesty's Post Office. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a Bill to extend the provisions of the Act of the present session, cap. 5, to recorders and other municipal officers. HIGH AND SUB-SHERIFFS OF SLIGO. Colonel PERCEVAL was understood to give notice of a motion for a return of copies of all correspondence which had taken place between her Majesty's Government in Ireland and Mr. Howley, relative to the appointment of the high-sheriff and sub-sheriff of the county of Sligo. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL presented a petition from Falmouth against negro alavery. The House then adjourned, at a Quarter to One o'Clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARem 9. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Wa termen's Act Bill was reported without amendments. Mr. Crafer. from the Treasury, attended to present papers. Lord BANDON presented a petition signed by upwards of 800 of the electors of Cork, praying for an annual revision of the registry in Ireland. Also a petition from Bandonbridge on the subject of the Poor-laws ; likewise petition; from Ban don, and several other places, against any national system of education in Ireland which excluded the use of the Holy Scriptures. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the Inha bitants of Inverness, praying for the establishment of a morn ing mail from London to the north, including Inverness. Lord STANHOPE presented a petition from Merthyr Tidvil, in Glamorganshire, signed by upwards of 5,000 per -8"s, praying for the immediate repeal of the Poor Law Amendment Act. Also, a petition front the town of Hudders field to the same effect. Lord RADNOR presented a petition from Ashburton, and one from Blackburn, praying for the immediate abolition of negro slavery. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Kirkintul loch against any additional endowment to the Church of Scot land ; a petition from Ashburton, praying for the immediate extinction of negro slavery ; a petition from the Wesleyan Methodists assembling at Acton, to the same effect ; also Petitions from the inhabitants of Bath, agreed to at a Public meeting ; from the Wesleyan Methodists, of Pen zance, Cornwall ; the inhabitants of Wincanton, Dorking, Airdale College, Yorkshire, and from several other places, to the same effect; also petitions from Dunbar, and some other places, against any grant to the Scotch Church ; a petition from the solicitors, and practitioners in the law, of Pundee, against the passing of the Bill for regulating the Sheriffs' C ourt ; a petition from Cupar, praying their Lord ships to amend the Reform Bill to such an extent as would enable it to accomplish the objects of its projectors; a peti tion from C u p ar , signed by 641 persons, agreed to at a Public meeting, praying for a repeal of the Corn Laws; a petition from Cupar, signed by the town clerk, respecting a railway Bill ; likewise a petition from certain inhabitants of Aylesworth against any form of oaths, and praying to be al lowed to affirm instead of swear. The Noble and Learned Lord stated that he had yesterday and to-day presented no less than sixty-five petitions from different parts of the country, all in favour of the great object of extinguishing negro slavery. COLONIAL COURTS OF ERROR BILL. Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask a question of the Noble Secretary of State for the Colonies. He (Lord br o ugbem) had read the Bill with great care which Ltd been laid on the table by his Noble Friend—a Lill not satisfactory to his views. In that Bill there *as a clause which gave a certain power to a Court 0 f Error in the Colonies with respect to action and execution en th e judgments, and he (the Noble and Learned Lord) "shed to know what the constitution of those Courts of Error, p art icularly in Jamaica, was ? Lord GLENELG said they consisted of the Governor and two or three of the Council. Lord BROUGHAM.—.Two or three of what ? Lord GLENELG.—Two or three of the Council. lam aot sure. Lord BR 0 UG H A M.--Why, this is the most extraordinary tl'iobt, I ever heard. The Marquis of S LIG o.—l can explain that. I Lord B ROUGHAM.— H a , ha I —Stop stop I—(Much au g h ter.) His Noble Friend did not draw the Bill. Was ther e to be a Court of Error in every Colony ? If not, some of C o l on i es would l oose th e protection of this clause. ' e ra were different constitutions in different colonies, and he hoped his Noble Friend woul d accede to the Ras he was about to make. T hat p ro p osition to move for a return, stating the constitution t uo Cou r t s o f E rror , in the several Colonies respec w-slelY, to w hi c h t h e Bill app li e d. H e trusted his Noble Friend uuld not object to that. Lord GL ENELG had no o bj ect i on to t h e r eturn asked for t t the Noble Lord, but he had a decided objection to postpone e , i 'econd reading of the Bill on that account. He was to prepared to make all the statements witla reference to the eure, which he thought necessary. r ead 9rd BROUGHAM had no wish to delay the second lu g of th e Bill, indeed his opinion was that the sooner it i..ar disposed of the better; but it was necessary that some in ,lin,ation should be had on the subject. he Duke of WELLINGTON thought that perhaps the I‘ e l ter course would be to postpone the second reading from qi:i'red n daY to Tuesday, as before that time the information re by the Noble Lord might be procured. viscount MELBOURNE bad no objection to any reason ,,,postponement, but he objected after reproaches had been cede against the Mi n i sters f or not b r i ng ing in the Bill, when lc 0 a , t , 13 i1l was brought in, an application should come fram the ut Lord to postpone it for the purpose of obtain information. H o h a d no o bjection to postpone the m easur e fro m M on d ay to T ues d ay , f or the convenience of the ‘,oble Duke. R as BR OUGHAM said, that what h e h a d prev i ous ly sa id „s4a4sPerfectly cons i s t ent w i t h the present proceeding. The Qure had b een b roug ht f o rward iii such a shape as to th i. der it impossible for him, or any other person, to call it any fiebut ill shaped, and an abortion.—( Hear.) Was there kr hi nX, he would ask, that was inconsistent in wishing a s ure to be brought forward without imperfections ? How h e tell whether he could agree to the principle of the , lil, unless he knew how tha Courts of Error were consti eged. gill Marquis of SLIGO tho ug ht it w a s d c si rea bl e that the '" should be carried through before Easter, in order that t r r tain proceedings should take place in the Colonies, which le Bill rendered necessary. Lord GLENELG had no objection to the proposition of t he Noble Duke to ,stpone the second reading till Tuesday. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. Lo r d ABERDEEN asked if the Noble Viscount at the 'jut of her Majesty's Government was prepared to s t a t e w h at "7re the • tions of the Ministry with regard to th e q uesti on additional endowments to the Church of S cotland, than no question, ', .whether of foreign , or domestic policy , ex ' more interest in Scotland Lord MELBOURNE—My Lords,. I . am aware of the r "g feeling which exists on this subject in Scotland. The ti s ti '"lon wlichthe Noble Earl has put, has been put and an. i - r 7.'red in another place. And (judging the usual sources of Ic ' t nlation) the question was said, I kno f w ro n m ot how truly, to have *lel" answered in a very undigested manner. This, my Lords, . Qv gs the ill effect of the haste with which measures are urged ta li her Majesty' s Mi n i s t ers . Nothing, my Lords, tends so i n ca . to th ese i ll effects, as t h e hurrying d measures del a rash m anner . It i s much better to bring on measures Lerat elY one b one, so that the whole attention of the kt"',llnnent might be directed to each. My Lords, a great l which in ' a es• has been b made or. the Government for the little 41: Peen effected this Session. I cannot help thinking that en -34 : es of the greatest importance, and quite sufficient to (A, : , nO PY . the attentiOn of Parliament, have been brought forward , e gaged Particularly, as th e o th er H o use of Parliament has _beep -tu n oe a measure of the highest importance to Ireland, Poor Laws, amply sufficient to occupy their attention the e under their consideration. My Lords, as . . to th at c hurch of Scotland, I certainly am of opinion whatever dearth of church-room or spiritual assistance et 'he may exist in Scotland, it ought not to be supplied out L aw if'bgeneral funds of the country, until all the property which beenbeen heretofore possessed by the Crown, or . which, e Present time, is bound to make up the deficiency, has Wh e de voted to these purposes. In those parishes, therefore, re such want exists, and these funds hare been already 41itusted, the Government intend to propose that aid should pnagsrarited out of the Bishop's teinds, which are now in the th, e l'ion of the Crown. But in those parishes in which - Jitn fiends were not exhausted, it is not intended to give those orther assistance, except what may be obtained from te u nexhausted ti en d s , an d measures will be taken Loder those fiends more readily available. rd B RoUGIEMS rose, but gave way to— fron.l Earl o f AB ERDE EN , w h o said that he supposed Ir rinit rat had fallen from the Noble Viscount that a measure (L O be introduced on the subject. The Noble Viscount %),r° Melbourne) had said that it was the intention of the PariZ nm ent not to make any application respecting those kn .." in which the ticads had not been exhausted. But fold if of those parishes the kleb.ciency existed in a ten. ......(tiSree more than in any other part of the country. it w ea; bear, hear.) The Noble Viscount said that not intended to supply the deficiency cut of the general funds of the country, but out of the Bishops' teinds. Now, those teinds had become part of the hereditary revenues of the Crown, and the Noble Viscount might put his hand into which pocket be pleased; but still he would take the money out of the public pocket, just as much as if he took it directly out of the Consolidated Fund.—(Hear, hear, from Lord Brougham.) He (Lord M.) said that, by an alteration of the Act of 1770, be could make the division of, parishes, and the appointment of mi nisters more easy, but in those parishes the Church property might be compared to tithes, and were the property of the heritors as lay-impropriators, and the in. tended alteration would throw upon their property the expense of the endowment.—The Heritors at present had the power of appointing a Minister if three-fourths of them were agreed, and the Synod had the power of dividing the pa rishes permanently. He would be glad if a little of that con sideration, of which he had heard so much, were applied to the subject.—( Hear, hear, from Lord Brougham.) Lord BROUGHAM could not avoid expressing the same astonishment as Lis Noble Friend opposite (Lord Aberdeen) at the answer given by the Noble Viscount, who, after having last night said that the subject was under consideration, now said that he (Lord Brougham) must have perceived that the answer he gave to the question last night was in the negative. Viscount MELBOURNE—In the negative as to a Parlia mentary grant. Lord BROUGHAM—A Parliamentary grant! Why it was a Parliamentary grant, because without enacting a money Bill the thing could not be done. What signified whether the money was taken out of one fund or out of another, out of the Consolidated Fund or out of the Bishop's teinds, which were now precisely as much a part of the public revenue as the excise, the customs, the post-office, or the stamps. The Bill granting this money would begin " Most gracious Sove reign," and the Royal Assent given to it would be "La Reine reniercie ses loyaux sujets, accept leur benevolence, et aussi vent." It would, therefore, be a Money Bill to all in tents and purposes for the benefit of the Church of Scotland. That, then, was an answer, not in the negative to the ques tion he put to the Noble Viscount last night, but directly in the affirmative. Viscount MELBOURNE said that whether it was an affir mative answer or not, he was referring at the time entirely to a Parliamentary grant of money. But what was proposed was a grant out of the Bishop's fiends, which were once in the possession of the Church, but were now in the possession of the Crown, and he begged to say, notwithstanding the speech of the Noble and Learned Lord, that that made a very great difference. This property was once in the possession of the Church itself, and that, he repeated, made a great diffe rence with respect to that part of it which was now in the pos session of the Crown. Because, at the time of the Reforma tion, when their tiends were taken possession of by the Crown, they were taken upon the express ground that they were thereafter to be applied to ecclesiastical and spiritual matters, and to the encouraging of the religious instruc tion of the people. The bishoprics founded by Henry VIII. were endowed out of the property he received at the Re formation ; and it was precisely upon that ground, and upon that view being held out to the country, that that pro perty was taken by the Crown. He knew that the Crown did not keep its word either in England or Scotland. On the contrary, much of this property was given to individuals and dispersed in grants; but he conceived that that part of it which still remained the property of the Crown might be very properly applied to the objects for which it was origi nally intended, and to which the Crown held out to the country that it was intended to appropriate it. He appre hended that the whole property of the Church of England stood upon the same ground. What was the landed pro perty of the Church of England ? Ho took it to be (though he did not pretend to speak with perfect knowledge on the subject) that part of the original property of the Church which Queen Mary found had not been granted by .Henry the Eighth and Edward the Sixth, and which she restored to the Roman Catholic Church, and which afterwards re mained in Queen Elizabeth's time the property of the Re formed Church. He, therefore, contended that the legiti mate course on the part of the Crown would be to apply such part of this property as was in the possession of the Crown to ecclesiastical purposes ; and that the Govern ment doing so, was not the same thing as if they applied to those purposes any other part of the public revenue. As to the argument of the Noble and Learned Lord, with respect to these teinds being private property, it was true they were private property, but they were, under the act of 1707, made expressly applicable to the purposes of the Church ; and if any parish in Scotland was in a state of destitution, these tiends were the first fund which ought to be resorted to. He was sure that from the general anxiety which prevailed on the part of the landowners of Scotland to supply the means of religious instruction in the principles of the Established Church to the inhabitants of that country, they would be the first to bail this measure with the greatest satisfaction, and would cheerfully give a share of that property, which they now enjoyed under the condition, when it was re luired, of providing for the better instruction and greater spiritual as sistance of the community.—( Hear. ) Lord BROUGHAM must strongly protest against a prin ciple of spoliation such as that which had just been laid down by the Noble Viscount in a moment of inconsideration. The Noble Viscount would reflect further upon this : he might be well assured that he would hear further of it ; for this was the most complete principle of spoliation that had ever been brought forward. He had never heard the spoliatory principle so plainly avowed before ; because the Noble Viscount must know that the men who bought these tiends— Viscount MELBOURNE—They bought them subject to the onus imposed by the Act. Lord BROUGHAM—Yes, but not beyond that onus. Did any man suppose that these tiends were bought subject to supplying new Churches in Scotland ? Th,y were not liable beyond providing for the present Churches, unless by a parti cular process, which required three-fourths of the heritors in each parish to concur in any further charge ; thus they had the staff in their own hands for their own protection. But now it was proposed to take the staff from them, upon a mere chimera, a dream ; for it was nothing less, if it were supposed that these tiends were liable to any one burden or charge of this kind. True, you might make them liable just as you might make lay impropriators in England liable, and just as it might by some be supposed that lay appropriations were liable to do more for the Church than the owner of other descrip tions of property. But that was a doctrine which no lawyer in Westminster-hall ever yet heard of. He would ask the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, whether, in his experience, he ever had known any such burden to be imposed on lay impropriations? The Earl of HADDI NGT ON did not exactly know whe ther the observation of the Noble Viscount with respect to the landlords of Scotland was intended in a friendly spirit, or whether there was something of sarcasm in it; but whatever the intention of the Noble Viscount might have been, he (the Earl of Haddington) had no doubt that the landed interest of Scotland were always ready to every thing that it became them to do idsupport of the Established Church of that coun try, and of the religious instruction of the people. The Court of Teinds were required to make an augmentation for the ex isting clergy of parishes; but the injury which the proposed measure would occasion would not be confined to the landown ers, out of whose pockets the money would proceed, but it would extend to the existing clergy, whose means of augmen tation would thereby be diminished. This was a subject upon which the Noble Viscount would probably hear a great deal, and more perhaps than ho would like to hear. But as he (the Earl of Haddington) conceived that the proposition of the Noble Viscount was not very likely to lead to any practical results, he confessed he had heard it with less regret than that part of the statement of the Noble Lord in another place, and which he believed would seriously disappoint the expecta tions of the people of Scotland ; he meant the statement that the wants and necessities of the Church in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and of every other large town in Scotland, were to be overlooked by the State ; and that the Government, as long as the tiends existed, would look on with indifference as to whether seats in the Established Church were sufficiently nu merous to afford accommodation and religious instruction to the people of that country. He could assure his Noble Friend that that announcement would create very great disappoint ment. The Noble Viscount complained that he had been urged and hurried, and that he had not bad time to consider this question. Now, it was three years ago that the Com mission was appointed. That Commission made their first Report a year and ahalf ago; and their second Report, which was with reference to Glasgow only, had been four or five months on the table ; and now their Lordships were told that the Government were riot going to pay the least attention to either of these Reports, but that they had made up their minds on a matter upon which the Commissioners had not re ported at all. Lord BROUGHAM denied the distinction made by the Noble Viscount, and which seemed to be acceded to by the Noble Earl, between Bishop's tiends wad any other de scription of tiends. It was the merest fancy that ever was invented. The tiends were just as much public property as any other portion of the national funds. The Earl of ['ADDINGTON admitted that the Bishop's tiends were part of the public funds, and all that he had said was that it was that part of the public funds to which it was most natural to have recourse. After a few words from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Minto, Lord Brougham, and the Earl of Devon, the conversation dropped. SLAVE TRADE. The Earl of MINTO, in consequence of the notice lie gave last night, wished to ask the Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Brougham) whether he would have any objection to dis charge the order for one of the returns relative to the slave trade for which he moved on Friday last. The return to which he referred was that which called for extracts from the log-books of the cruisers and other ships employed upon the coast of Africa for the last ten years. To complete this return a reference would be required to the log-books of upwards of 1,100 ships, from each of which three extracts were de manded. This could not be accomplished except at very great inconvenience, and after the lapse of a very considerable period of time. He wished to ask the Noble and Learned Lord, therefore, whether he would consent to discharge the order for that part of the return, upon an a;:urance from him (Lord Minto) that he wo uld afford him every fae i l ; ty in h i s power to obtain the inkirraetion he required by any other means.—After some discussion, Laid ”ROUGH AM consented to limit ttn s petura to ..ex tracts from 66 1;L -books of the capturing ship s , an d o f a n ether ships upon the Africa; - ; roast upon;he day of capture and the two days previous to the capture, arhg last two years. CHURCH IN CANADA. The Archbish c4NTERBURY rose t o p resent to 4 their Lordships a petition bock the Protestant inhabitants of the province of Upper Canada, signed bv upwards of 5,900 persona. This petition had been some time in his p4sses4on. It was first placed In his hands so lo n g a go as the Spring of 1834, and the reason why he retained it until the present time was because the petitioners oxrpte4 the settlernen; of the affairs of the Church in C.inada to come before Parliament every successive session, and were not aware of the precise time at which the subl.ct would be brought forward. They therefore placed the petition in his (the Archbishop of Can. terbury's) hands, in order that it might meet the exigency whenever it should occur. He would now read from the peti tion the description which the petitioners gave of themselves : —" The petitioners were composed of loyalists and their chil dren who took refuge in Upper Canada after the American re volution, under a solemn pledge that they should receive the same Constitution as the mother country—a Constitution which provided for the establishment of the Protest:int Church. That pledge was fully satisfied by the statute of the 33d of George 111., which provided for the support of the Protestant Clergy in a way which imposed no burthen on any class of persons, nor disabilities on any persons professing a dif ferent faith. The petitioners also consisted of emigrants, who had settled in the colony, because they felt secure that they should enjoy the inestimable blessing of joining in the worship of God and their Saviour as their fathers did before them. The petitioners represented that they did not so much appeal to the special authority of the House as claim to con tinue in the enjoyment of an undoubted right. They, there fore, pray the House would make a permanent provision for public worship according to the doctrines of the Church of England." It was said—and to his surprise he had heard it —that in Canada Protestantism was in point of numbers the sr - oiliest of the " sects," as in that country were termed all religions except the Romish. But this was not so. After the Catholic, the Established religion in Canada had the greatest number of followers, and he was certain all that was requisite to give it a preponderance was the endowment and maintenance of an efficient Protestant Establishment. There were many thousands in Canada, who were without any Church whatever, but who, nevertheless, had a great thirst for religion, and would willingly flock round a Protestant Clergyman were he to settle among them. In the observations he had now to conclude he begged to be understood as not imputing any in attention or neglect to any of those who had filled the office of Colonial Secretary, and to the Noble Lord who now held its seal he felt much indebted for the kindness with which lie had attended to his comments, and the frankness with which he had listened to his views of the subject—views which he was confident he felt regret at not being able to meet. —( Hear, hear.) He begged, in conclusion, to move that the petition be brought up. The Earl of RIPON concurred most cordially in the sen timents expressed by the Right Reverend Prelate as to the obligation on them to maintain in the colonies the Established Church, but in respect to those colonies which came into the possession of Great Britain by foreign conquest there was in this respect very great difficulty, because no one of them surrendered without expressly stipulating for the maintenance and support of their religion ; so that, in point of fact, the Church of England in those colonies did not and could not stand identically on the same footing that it did in this country. In the province of Upper Canada there w 4 the peculiarity of two Established religions—the Catholic religion, which England had engaged to maintain, and the Protestant religion, as the religion of the mother country. In taking the course he did he certainly did not believe, nor did he naw, that he was doing anything to weaken the Church or deprive it of its just influence ; and, he might add, he was convinced that the plan he had suggested, would, if acted upon, place it on a footing from which it could not be overturned. Lord GLENELG said that no one felt more fully than himself the attention and respect due both to the importance of the subject and to the high character of the Most Reverend Prelate, and to the excellent tone and temper in which he had brought it forward. At this moment no subject excited more attention in Lower Canada than the means of supporting the different religions prevailing there, not a very simple or easy problem to solve. The most Rev. Prelate bad relied on the fact that the Church of England in Canada was supported by Parliamentary grants till 1832 ; but the fact was that it had only received aid from the item of Army Extraordinaries, and the fund fur extending Christian knowledge, till 1832, when a new system was established, and the Government undertook to provide for the support of the Church of England Clergy in Upper Canada; and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to; support the Church of England Clergy in all the other provinces, by the aid of 4,0001. a year from Govern ment, provided that no new claimant be put upon the list. The interest on the funds from the sale of reserves, had now amounted to 6,0001 in the Three per Cents., and with 2,5001. derived from Crown revenues made: a total of 8,5001. now applibable to their support. But great complaints were making by the Scotch Clergy there, who quoted the opinion of our great law authorities, and of all the Go vernments who had occasion to touch on the subject since it was mooted. Even his Noble Friend (the Earl of Ripon) who had just left the House had recognised the claims of the Scotch Clergy to a participation therein. They had now 1,500/. a year granted them in Upper Canada, and the united Synod of the Church of Scotland 7001., making in all 2:000/. The Roman Catholics there bad also 1,500/. These claims and possessions all tended to difficulties and per plexities which could not easily be unri.vellod by a Parliament of this country, and were only subjects proper for a local one. The former Roman Catholic Bishop of Montreal had received 3,000/. a year from the funds of this country, and, after se veral applications, received leave to appoint Dr. Mountain his coadjutor, with a salary of 1,0001. taken from his own. Dr. Mountain was also permitted to hold the proceeds of his rec tory and archdeanry, amounting to WO/. a year more; and, on the death of the Bishop, Ministers (considering the state of Lower Canada) thought it right to apply to the House of Commons, and up a grant of 1,0001. a year, to re store him to the same condition he was in before the death of the Bishop. It would be expedient to have a Bishop in Upper Canada also, but no funds could be had recourse to except those already appro priated by the Act of 1791 to the support of the Clergy, and which would require the assent of the House of Assembly —a thing not to be obtained at present. The hereditary and ter ritorial revenues might be applicable, but the disputed question of the Civil List prevented any agreement and appropriation of these funds. There were, however, other (casual) reve nues, and the Govermor had received instructions to lay before the House of Assembly a proposal for their appropriation to the formation of an enlarged fund for the promotion of the service of the Church of England in that province. He should be most happy if they could agree in allocating any increase with respect to the subject of the petition laid on the table this evening. Ho thought it very unfair to appeal to the Parliament of this country while it was under the consi deration of the Government and the House of Assembly of Lower Canada. After a few word, from the Bishop of LONDON, The house adjourned at Nine o'Clock. COLONEL THOMPSON. THI4: SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MARCH 10. 1838. THE DUNFERMLINE AND MARYLEBONE ELECTIONS. In the Scotsman of Wednesday last appears the following letter addressed by Mr. Tait to the Editor of that journal circumstances of the last election for the Dun fermline Burghs have been repeatedly referred to of late by the London press, in connexion with the names of Colonel Thompson and Mr. Hume. These circumstances are rather curious. As they have been always inaccurately referred to, I shall give you the true version. The Dunfermline electors, who constitute more than half the total electors of the Dunfermline and Stirling District of Burghs, had been long discontented with Lord Dalmeny, whom they regarded as a Conservative Whig, in co respect representing the sentiments of a Radical and manufacturing constituency. Mr. Hume and Mr. John Craufurd were applied to by the leading Radicals of Dunfermline to find them a proper representa tive ; but both these gentlemen discouraged any op position to the Ministerial candidate. Time was lost by these applications. At the near approach of the elections, a deputation of the Dunfermline Radical electors consulted me as to the choice of a fitting representative. I showed them two letters recently received from Colonel Thompson ; one of them only the day before. In the first, the Colonel said, " I do not go again to Hull. If, therefore, I can be useful to the Liberals any where, I am at their ser vice." In the second letter he adds, " I am at this moment aground for a place to sit for." The deputation decided at once to start the Colonel, conceiving these letters a full war rant for them to do so. Not an instant was lost. Indeed there was no time to spare. Only one post after receipt of Colonel Thompson's last letter, I wrote to him what had occurred, and that I was going to Dunfermline that very afternoon, to witness his being proposed to the electors of Dunfermline, at a pub lic meeting of Lord Dalmeny and his constituents. I con veyed to him the assurance of the deputation that he would be adopted as the popular candidate, and that his election would be certain, urging him to leave London for Edinburgh by the first mail. Had the Colonel done so, he would have been Member for these burghs. At the Dun fermline public meeting, Lord Ddlmeny was, after a full hear ing, and such a searching cross-examination as I never saw a candidate subjected to, almost unanimously discarded by both electors and non-electors, and Colonel Thompson was ac cepted with enthusiastic cheering. By this time intimation had been made of the election being fixed for Monday, the 24th, and this meeting was on the 20th. An active canvass for the Colonel was instantly commenced, and nothing was wanted to insure the success of the independent candidate but his leaving London by the first mail. I had a chaise and four waiting to convey him from Edinburgh to the hustings at Stirling, which we would have reached within two hours after the commencement of the proceedings. There, the Col. was nominated by the Provost, and seconded by the Dean of Guild, of Dunfermline. Many an anxious look was given for the expected chaise and four—but in vain. The Colonel came no t. Yet the show of hands was in his favour; and had he arrived that evening his election was sure. But instead of the Colonel himself, there came this letter from him : " I am afraid I could not, consistently with the union it is de sirable to preserve, till upon good counsel it is determined to break it, accept the offer made from the Dunfermline burghs; particularly as the Whigs appear to have been doing the handsome thing in the case of Roebuck at Bath, by withdrawing the Whig, Captain Scobell. I need not ,>,y, but for this, how glad I should be to accede," The indignation with which this cool answer filled the men who had just made every exertion to carry the Colonel's election, could not be controlled. It broke out in a public meeting at Dunfermline, at which strong reso lutions were passed cf•glOns,it 4 nandnlontt coalition, hetwen Whig and Radical Members, not to oppose ea 4! other; 'What!! ever might be the wishes of the constituencies. This con spiracy agalpsF this ffW eIIRiPP of electors the public meeting regarded as proved 4y the pominct aid )eit'er of Thompson, coupled with the malapert boasting of Lord DaL meny at the hustipgs, and the previous communications held with Mr. J. Cratilur4 and :1 r. riump. 4 letter just received from Mr. W. Sharman Crawford confirmed` the of thQ Dunfermline electors, that a combination between the Radical leaders and the Whigs actually existed. For the resolutions which were proposed by the Provost of Dunfermline, and car ried unanimously, I refer you to the newspapers of the day. They were published in the Edinburgh Observer of 28th July, and copied and commented on by the Times and other Tory papers. In this case, Colonel Thompson refused (under the very peculiar circumstances I have detailed, which make the re fusal tenfold more remarkable) to stand against a Whig—a Conservative Whig—a connection of an anti. popular Ministry. At the Marylebone election, he has played a very different part. Without the smallest chance of carrying his own elec tion, he has stood to prevent another Liberal from being elected. In one thing only has he been consistent ; an app arent resAu tion, in both instances, that the constituency should not have the man of its choice. Col. Thompson has been for many years (chiefly as a public writsr) one of the most faithful, zealou, and able supporters of the people's cause. His writings in the Illest. minster Review, his addresses in the Commons, his letters to his constituents of Hull, &c., have done good service. But his conduct, in both these instances, has been mischievous in the extreme. To him it is owing that Lord Dalmeny, a mere Whig, sits for Radical Dunfermline, instead of a Radical of the electors' choice ; and to him is due the credit of forcing the Tory Lord Teignmouth on the Radical constituency of Maryle bone, instead of Mr. Ewart, a thorough Radical, a most useful legislator, and the man of their choice. I have a high respect fur Colonel Thompson ; but I confess that I embrace with pleasure the opportunity of protesting against his conduct at both elections. I know he means well; but he has, in both cases, done evil that good might come of it. W. TAIT. IRELAND. THE REPIONIAND !-The Trade's Political Union, and the metropolitan parish of St. Mary's, have met, and recorded their thanks to Mr. O'Connell for his conduct during the late trying occasion, when attacked by the Tory party for giving free expression to his opinions on the defective mode of trying petitions on controverted elections. Petitions to Parliament also have been adopted against the present mode of trying controverted elections. A requisition for calling a public meeting of the citizens of Cork, also for the purpose of preparing an address of congra tulation to Mr. O'Connell, is in the course of signature at the Chamber of Commerce. There is no doubt the meeting will be numerously and respectably attended, as there can be but one opinion on the foul efforts made by the Committees of the House of Commons to defeat the honest expression of the public voice in the choice of our Representatives, and to rob the electors of their rights in this quarter of the empire. Such meetings are likely to become general in Ireland. A MAN INDICTED INSTEAD OF A MARE.-An illustration of the manner in which our criminal calendars aro most scan dalously swelled, was given at the present assizes of West meath. The foreman of the grand jury came down, and stated to the Court that a bill of indictment had come before them, charging a prisoner with having maliciously killed a foal, the property of a neighbour, while it ap peared, from the testimony of the witnesses, that the ani mal was killed by a kick which it bad received from the prisoner's mare. Believing that the prosecutor was en deavouring to compromise the charge—and repudiating the monstrous idea that any magistrate, with the true state of the case before him, would have doomed an unoffending man to the felon's cell, the informations were sent for, and upon the face of these the true nature of the fact was found distinctly set forth I A mare killed a foal by a kick—for this informations were sworn before a magistrate, not against the mare (in that the ludicrous would not have been an outrage upon justice)— but against the owner of the animal—his committal is duly made out by a man holding the magisterial commission— he is consign e d to goa l , an incarcerated for three weeks, kept from his business and family, and degraded as a felon— and when the real nature of the case is discovered, the unfor tunate man is left to the questionable remedy of a suit at law. The matter thus brought to light is at once illustrative of the efficiency of the great unpaid, and of the extent to which the criminal calendars are loaded with mock or trivial cases. —Pilot. latstt Poott LAW BILL—The Archbishop of Tuam, has again addressed an argumentative letter to Lord John Russell, pointing out the pernicious tendencies of the Ministerial measure. The Dublin Faceman, in which Journal it appears, observes in relation to the Bill—" Our own opinion is, that before the measure is six months in operation the whole coun try will be in arms against it." STATES GENERAL OF HOLLAND. NEW FINANCIAL PROJECTS. THE HAGUE, FEB. 28.—The second Chamber of the States-General met to-day, when the preliminary business being got through, four Royal messages were presented, accompanying four projects of law, with their respective explanatory memorials :- 1. Modification in the law of the 12th of March, 1818, respecting the practice of medicine. 2. The means of providing for the entire payment of the interest of the debts for 1838; the payments to be made by the Colonial Treasury (4,200,000 florins each half). These payments to be in form of a loan, to be repaid in the sequel (both principal and interest) to the Colonial Treasury. The funds to be provided by a debt to the amount of 8,500,000 florins, on account of the Colonies, either in coupons of Losrenten at five per cent. interest from the Ist of April, 1838, or guaranteed on the posting of the law of the 11th of March, 1837. 3. The extraordinary expenses of the navy, 700,000 florins; of the army, 9,387,700 florins. These expenses will be co vered without having recourse to additional taxes by means of the surplus of the sums voted for other purposes. 4. An emission of Losrenten, on a part of the sum charged to the colonies to advance money for works of public utility. This project of law proposes that the capital of 30 millions, which constitutes the portion not yet issued of the said debt, placed to the account of the colonies, is for the expenses of an iron railroad from Amsterdam to Arnheim, by way of Utrecht, with a branch from Rotterdam to Utrecht, and for embanking and draining the Lake of Haarlem, and for the expenses of the public works. A royal resolution was afterwards communicated respecting the accession of the grand duchy of Hesse to the treaty for the navigation of the Rhine. 'We learn that his Majesty's frigate Bellona, with Prince William Frederic Henry on board, had arrived at Singapore, who negotiat e d and sail e d on the llth October through the Straits of M a l acca for Calcutta. Messrs.Dehuffr the sß Navigationochsen of th e Rhi ne , , with h t is Prussia said that t thet Convention for are to go again to Berlin to negotiate a commercial treaty with Prussia. In consequence of the objections made by the sections of the Second Chamber to the project of law brought forward in December, last year, relative to a modification of the duties on importation, exportation, and transit, the Government has sent an amended project to the Chamber. NEW MONTHLY IVIACA7,INE FOR COLBURN'S Alm F, teu. om ro BY Mri EODORE OOK, E so. _ in the pre sent number of this amusing periodical, the contributors, who include some of the ablest arid most popular writers of the day, have put forth their best powers, and have produced a feast of' wit sufficient to have created a high reputation for a dozen magazines in times past. Theodore liook, D oug l as Jerrold, CaPtain Marryat , J. B. Buckstone, John P oo l e , t h e author of "Paul Pry "—all wits of sparkling wate r —fi gure most bril liantly in these pages; while Miss Lando n furnishes poetical str a i ns worthy a name already so celebrat e d for immortal song. In addition to the " Gurney Papers," the following will cause many a mouth to expa nd in wreathed smile s or hearty laugh ter: —Consolatory Address to Mr. Murphy. -_A Discourse on Bores—Historical Recollections of Major Gahagan—Baron Geramb's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem—the " Gent ee l" Pi geons —the Young Philanthropist and the Old Brute; while Letters from Ireland —the American Indian, &c. will supply the reflective with another kind of amusement.—Bath Herald. PUBLIC P E TITIONS.—The eleventh report of the Select Committee on public petitions w as i ssue d on F riday. From that document it appears that the number of petitions presented to the House of Commons from the 21st of Sep tember,lB37, to the 23d of February, 1838, on t h e f o l lowing s übjects, was—For the Balkt 321 petitions, with 169,090 sig. natures; aga inst it, fou r p e ti t i ons, w i t h 1,310 signatures. For an Extension of the Suffrage (generally), four petitions, with 1,288 signatures ; Household Suffrage, four petitions, 9,878 signatures; Universal Suffrage, seven petitions, 2,031 signa tures; Repeal of the Septennial Act, one petition, 726 signa tures ; against further endowments to the Church of Scotland, 10 petitions, 5,701 signatures ; for the abolition of Church rates, two petitions, 75 signatures ; for the abolition of Irish Tithes, 15 petitions, 7,728 signatures ; against altering the system, one petition, 124 signatures ; for the aboliton of Negro Apprenticeship, 200 petitions, 71,346 signatures; for the re peal of the Corn Laws, 10 petitions, 8,347 signature.; on the subject of Postage, 66 petitions, 4,845 signatures ; for a Na tional System of Education, 16 petitions, 36,277 signatures ; i n favour of the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill, 26 petitions, 13,615 signatures; against it, four petitions, 12 signatures. SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—O n Wednesday morning last, as widow Clayton was proceeding from her house, about three in the morning, to assist in washing, she was laid hold of by two fellows in smoekfrocks, who stripped off her clothes, pulled her ear-rings from her ears (which were at the time torn), took her wedding-ring from her finger, put a strap round her ancle, dragged her to the wash-dike of Mr. Agar's ,ki n yard, and threw her in and left her, supposing, as they said, she was " done for." Managing, however, to creep out, she again m e t the ruffians, who threw her into the ditch a se cond time. After lying some time, she again crept out, and alarmed a person of the name of Clark, in the neigh, bourhood, who conducted her home to bed, where she has since lain in a very poor state. Unfortunately, at present, the fellows are w iltn own.—Lincohi Gazette. LORD STANLEY.—We are glad to learn that Lord Stanley, who has been suffering from indisposition brought on by cold, and not from the serious causes assigned by some of our contemperaties, is now convalescent, and that it is not de oidedlY improbable that he will be able to attend the forth coming AsSize3 at Lancaster. We believe the Noble Lord's illness arose from a severe cold, caught by him while Opt shpo, ing— a sport of which, as is generallv-,knnWri4 4tt Is almost pas siontov fond i —,,p re , s p ri orooick: on 1 4 0 ,11 day last the Duke of Wellington was 11LIP4 i n a very critical situation in his way to join t 4 Ylne hounds. The horse; t l y i l l§ gr ace 0440 from sortie unknown cauSgi 41114 proKedod at all alarming pace nearly two miles before they kvere stopped. His Grace coolly kept his seat, and the servant clambered from the dickey, over the roof of the cabriolet, to assist him, but most providentially no a,celdenc occtn:red!—pegclinq itifercurp‘ SEVERN NAVIGATION COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A short letter appeared in your excellent paper a little time ago on this Bill, now soon to go before Parliament a second time ; and as the Company has now to contend against a most vexatious, and I may say unnatural opposition, it is my wish just to let you into the real state of the case, not elaborately, but in a concise manner. " Severn Naviga tion Company" was formed into such two }ears ago, for public, not private, benefit, with a large and sufficient capital, and a Bill sent before Parliament the Session previous to the present. It was thrown out on the second reading, in the shameful manner represented in the letter above alluded to. It is admitted, even by the opponents to this measure, that the river wants improvement. The Gloucester people care not about it, as they now receive merchandize transhipped in smaller craft, and forwarded to Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, &c. &c. Now, Sir, the city of Worcester and its people, being close to the great manufacturing districts, wish naturally to participate in the benefits of being placed on so fine a river as the Severn ; and to have the full benefits thereof, the river must be put into a better state by art, in order to assist its natural utility for the purposes of trade and commerce : the Gloucester people say, " You shall not do so," because, forsooth, the river in its present state suits them, and the improving it may injure the it local trade ; we will by interest swamp the Bill on its second reading, by wrong and false re presentations to Members of Parliament, for if we allow it to go to Committee we must be beat on the true merits (f the Bill. This was the case last Session, and the Company lost 12,000/. This Session the Company have to contend with the Bir mingham Canal Company, who are urged on by their last year's opponents—the Gloucester people. The Canal Com pany's opposition is of the same selfish stamp. They say you shall not carry the trade beyond the mouth of cur Canal, (which is about half a mile below the city of Worcester); for if you do, our selfish views will not be answered, for we wish to keep the trade from going further into the interior of the kingdom, as if it should, other Canals will participate in the benefits of the trade. Now the Bristol people may say, on the same ground, that converting Gloucester, as it has been, into a maritime place was injurious to them ; but would it not be selfish and ridiculous in us to oppose Gloucester if she has the means to accomplish such a desirable object? Gloucester was therefore made a maritime port. The Bristol people now sag—Surely this is a very unnatural and vexatious opposition, for we know that great damage is sustained in the river in its present state, and that it is capable of such improvements as will be beneficial to our trade and commerce. We want to employ a better and more substantial class of vessels, that will go with safety across the Bristol Channel in all weathers, and proceed direct up the Severn to Worcester and the im mediate vicinity of the great manufacturing districts of Wor cestershire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, and the North of England, enabling us thereby to obta'n back freights of salt, pottery, iron, hardware, &c. &c., with much greater facility than we now can. These, Sir, arc a cow of the facts of this case, which you, as a journalist of such an extensive circulation, ought not to be unaquainted with. I am, Sir, A FRIEND TO ALL ADMITTED AND REAL IMPROVEMENTS. Worcester, Feb. 26, 1838. RELIGIOUS HISTORY OF MAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—Allow me a few words of explanation in reference to a softly severe notice of " the Religious History of Man," in your paper of the 17th. The tone of that paragraph may lead such of your readers as have not seen the volume to fancy that it is what is com monly called a pious book, the good intent of which should cover its argumentative sins. Now, like the young lady who objected to be called a virtuoso as a slur on her character, I cannot allow my book to be called a pious book ; nor ought its intention to shelter it from criticism, but the very reverse. I directed a copy of it to be sent to you, not expecting cer tainly that the main arguments of it could be grappled with in a newspaper paragraph ; but hoping that perhaps some of the curious and startling facts, such as those regarding the hieroglyphical language of the firmament, and the extensive worship paid to The Sun at the time it was " incorporated with the True Sun," might have elicited something worth reading in the way of correction or elucidation— and you send me in return a sugared plum about piety 1 I have already compared myself to a young lady, and you may have mistaken me for an old one, but lam like Cuddie's mother. I have " got my leg over the harrows ; and, the deil's in the wife for I will not whisht." lam little solicitous of the opinions of the Press, regarding either the piety or the composition of the volume, but I am anxious that the nature of " the testimony it uplifts" should be distinctly known. Permit me then to state to your readers that the scope of " the Religious History of Man" is to demonstrate that the pathways of Providence from the creation to the present time, and the history and prospects of the human race, are mystified and darkened by the popular as well as philosophic opinions of the age—opinions as opposed to com mon sense as they are to Scripture. The gauntlet is thrown down; and I am glad to see, from the contradictory opinions of the book, daily issuing from the Press, that the subjects discussed in it will soon force themselves on the notice of those with whom it will be honour to " wrestle a fall." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Liverpool, Feb. 24, 1838. D. MORISON. PETITIONS RESPECTING THE CATHOLICS. TO THE EDI7'OI? OF THE SUN. SlR—Holding the same liberal principles which you so firmly and so powerfully advocate, and agreeing in your wishes that the Constitution of this country, improved by salutary reforms wherever needful, should be preserved in security, I cannot doubt your cordial approval, and your effective recommenda tion of, the measure, which I am about to lay before the public through the channel of your excellent paper. No reasonable man could expect that the House of Com mons would pay regard to the defective and partial petition presented by Mr. Plumptre—a petition so manifestly defec tive in provisions for the attainment of its general object—and no less manifestly partial, as looking solely to Protestant in terests, without any solicitude for corresponding advantages to our Catholic brethren. Your motto and mine, Mr. Editor in all legislation on such subjects would be, "security to the Protestant, benefit to the Catholic." I therefore propose that without loss of time, petitions should be presented to each branch of the Legislature from every county, city, town, and populous village in these kingdoms, earnestly praying that an Act of Parliament be immediately passed, con aining substan tially the following enactments, in each of which all men must see that the principles of our motto arc fully developed and carried into execution : 1. That no Catholic be capable of having a seat in either House of Parliament. Our Catholic brethren would thus be relieved from onerous services for an unthankful public ; from the troubles, the collisions, and the expenoes of contested olec (ions ; and from the loss of health by nightly attendance in the corrupted atmosphere of the Douse of Commons. 2. That, as Protestant Members of Parliament elected by Catholic influence must be politically classed with Catholics, no Catholic, nor relative, connection, tenant, or dependent of a Catholic, be capable of voting at any election of any Mem ber of Parliament whatever. All Catholics will thus be ex empted from the fear and danger so harrassing to their Pro testant fellow subjects, of offending superiors, of losing farms, or of forfeiting custom or employment ; and will not need the protection of the Ballot. 3. That no Catholic be capable of bolding any office in the state, nor any municipal, or other office of trust or authority, nor any commission in the army or in the navy. Catholics would thus also be set free from unpleasant competitions, from injurious interruptions in their private concerns, and from the peril of wounds, loss of limbs, and of life, in campaigns and battles by land and sea. 4. That, as property is the great source of undue influence, Parliamentary Commissioners be appointed and empowered to ascertain the property, real and personal, of each individual Catholic in Great Britain and Ireland, above the rank of ar tisans, and to make reductions thereof by sale or otherwise, not exceeding one half thereof, unless the remainder would exceed three thousand pounds a-year, in which ease it is to be reduced to that sum ; all such reductions to go to the Conso lidated Fund, and to be employed in the diminution of the public taxes. Our Catholic brethren would share the ad vantage of diminished taxation, and would also be delivered from the cares and temptations of inordinate wealth. .. That Commissioners be appointed, and empowered in each county, to enquire into the annual gains of all Catholics above the rank of a day labourer from their several profes sions, trades, or occupations, and to appropiate yearly one half thereof to the reduction of the county rates, the improve ment of roads and bridges, and other publio works within the county, In the benefit and convenienoo of all these reductions and improvements, our Cetholic brethren will be, as under the preceding enactment, partakers. 6. That, as no State can rightly permit the diffusion of error, no Catholic be allowed to act as tutor, teacher, or instructor In any line whatever, in any school, seminary, or private family. Catholics will thus be relieved from the drudgery of trying to manage unmanageable youth, and to drive knowledge into Impenetrable heads. 7. That, as it is the duty of Catholics to give a good educa tion to their children, and the State is bound to ensure the per formance of it; every Catholic shall be required to send each of his children, male or female, before the child shall have completed its seventh year (the poor to be enabled by a rate on the wealthier Catholics) to some Catholic country beyond the seas, the selection of the country being left to the free choice of the parent, that the children may there be properly eduoated. Catholics would thus have the comfort of securing the education of thele offspring in the Catholic faith, at a saf P e distance from Protestant expositions and intrusion. d. As it would be highly detrimental to the public welfare to have a continual influx into these kingdoms of persons trained in foreign habits, opinions, views, prepossessions, and predilections, no child sent abroad as above sh a ll ever b e per mitted to return at any future time into any part of the British Empire in Europe. Cethelles will thus rejoice in the cer tainty of their children fixing themselves permanently among Catholics, a midst the predominance of Catholic instittitioes a ' cei;;ltvies severally endeesed to th em by a s s , m and c in the ation g. youthful u i l i fs a ua l gle ly ; t4e. PetitlAners will naturally add, " As we should be most unwilling to be compelled even to contemplate in 4houglit any harsh proceeding towards our Catholic brethren, we would at present hope that the above mutuelly beneficial measures, enforced by suitable penAltiee, and vigilantly exe ceted, may be sufficient to prevent the evils necessarily to be 44 AO dour Petitioners shall es er pray," &c.z. 1' CLASSICAL EVENING CONC The Third and last Concert of this Series (Wind Instru- L ments) took place yesterday evening at the Hanover-square ; Rooms. The Concert was announced in the programme as being under the immediate patronage of his Royal Highness thc Duke of Cambridge, who was present in the Royal Gal.. icry on the occasion, and appeared much delighted. The room, although on the two former nights it had been but thinly • attended, was on the closing night most inconveniently crowded. A more delicious treat to those amateur s who are partial to the rich combinations of wind instruments, and who are willing to sacrifice a little in the way of variety to the en.. joyment of such combinations, cannot be imagined than these Concerts have been. On the present occasion the several compositions were played with an equal degree of skill to that displayed on the former nights, and the selection was equally excellent. The First Part comprised a quintett of Reicher, arid a sextuor of Onslow. The quintett was one in F„ No. 6, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, per. formed by Messrs. Sedlatzek, Barret, Willman, Puzzi, and Baumann. It was throughout played in most mace terly style, and showed off the several instruments ' tyed, great advantage, particula r ly t h e h orn and oboe, bh in regard to the beauty of tone with w hi c h t h ey weae played, and the ability with which the difficulties and imperfections of those instruments were overcome. The sextuor of Onslow was for pianoforte, flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and double. bass, played by .11-ssre. E. Schultz, Sedlatzek, Willm- Puzzi, Baumann, and Dragonetti. It is throughout a cleve r com position, containing a good deal of very pretty melody an air with variations, in which the several instrument; had brilliant and characteristic solo parts, was much admired. The pianoforte was played by Mr. E. Schultz in first-rate style, exhibiting a fine taste and great rapidity of fingering. 'll e first part of the concert contained, in addition to the pieces mentioned, Mozart's " Dove sono," by Miss Thompson, a pupil of the Revel Academy ; a romance, " Doh Perdona," by Sigrer Ca3tellan, with an obligato horn part, by Signor Tozer I and a song from \Vcber's Preeiosa, sung by Mlle. Oa tergsa d, and accompanied on the flute by Mr. Sedlatzck, \Ve c nnot prase: either of these affairs very highly in regard to the singing. Miss Thompson is a promising young debutante, avid sang tsith much taste and feeling, but the quality of her voice is not of the best. Signor Castellan is a coarse singer, and had it not been for the horn accompaniment of Puzzi the song would have been a very flat affair. The young German lady's voice is very poor, and she possesses. no particular excellence that we could discover, to comeeensate for the deficiency. Of the eecoad part, the ccoaimencing piece was Mozart's spleadid Aria from Clemeeiza da Tito, " Parto ma to ben se o" sung by Miss WoodlArn, and accom panied on the .larinet by Mr. Willman. The song was too much for this young lady. The lower notes of her voice are rich and melodious, and the portion of the composition con_ fined to this part of her compass was well executed, but in the upper passages she failed utterly ; they were neither distinctly articulated nor correctly in tune. Willman's clarinet accompaniment was superb. Another quire. tett of Reicher, for the instruments already mentioned, followed. It was the one in B flat, which had been played at these concerts before, and was now repeated by " express do-. sire." The excessively difficult passages for the horn, were on this occasion executed by Puzzi, in most masteely style, without a single failure, and excited admiration combined with astonishment. \Ve noticed that in several passages of the horn, echoed by the bassoon, the latter instrument played them in a totally different style, both of tongueing and expression. The horn-player, however, was in the right, and it would not be amiss for the performer on the bassoon to take a lesson or two from him. Webbe's " Mansion of Peace" was next sung by Mr. J. Parry, in a very inoffensive, peaceable style. It is a heavy affair, and we arc surprised at its introduction, particularly at the fag end of the evening. Mr. Parry's voice is of fine quality, but he wants energy. The programme an nounced a Nonnet of Thrommer, as the terminating piece of the concert, but owing to sonic mistake about the copies it was compulsorily omitted, and a Rondo, from one of the Quintetts, substituted in its stead. \Ve should state that Sir George Smart presided at the pianoforte, and accompanied the vocal music with his usual tact and skill. It is, in our opinion, much to be regretted that these concerts are at an end. They were entirely out of the beaten track, and we are certain, from their intrinsic excellence, that when they had become generally known in the musical world, they would have been appreciated and patronised to the full extent of their merits. ~..... 1:4.:-. ~-,'•-) -4.---1 ..‘ :,'.-, ...,:,,7-.;•.-, CA.,-',7- ;\` i ' .:.:-. ' t .5 .. .‘,,; , `...-: ••7:-..• ' , *\ •,-. ' .„,\ • V . .. '',,,.. % - I -' -= ':il'• ''' ' - eft:: 1-- i'N-J , THE FIRE IN THE TEMPLE. On Thursday last several gentlemen connected with the Hon. Company of Benchers instituted an investigation at the Inner Temple Hall, for the purpose of inquiring into the origin of the conflagration, and other matters. Several gentlemen and watchmen of the Temple, were examined, and from their testimony the Committee had not the slightest doubt that the calamity which destroyed the buildings, Nos. 14 and 15, Paper-buildings, was occasioned by accident, and to have originated in the chambers of the Honourable and Learned Member for Carlow. From the few particulars, that could be elicited from one of the Inner Temple watch men, it scorns that about half-past four o'clock on the morning of the fire, while on duty, he heard the cry of " Watch, fire," and on proceeding to Paper-buildings saw Mr. Mule standing on the steps of the street. door, with nothing on but his shirt. As he approached Mr. Maule smoke was pouring forth from that gentleman's chambers. Our infor mant inquired of Mr. Maule whether there were any persons in the chambers, but not obtaining any satisfactory answer, he crawled on his hands and knees into them, but he could not find any one. At that period the wainscoating only was on tire, and it might have been extinguished by a few pails of water, of which none could be procured. Mr. Maule imme diately gave the alarm of fire, went and aroused all the in mates, amounting to 10 persons, all of whom fortunately es caped. Mr. Thompson and a female were the last persons to leave the premises, and they escaped by scrambling over the roof to the adjoining houses. Yesterday, the ruins having become sufficiently cool, by the engines playing on them, a number of labourers were em ployed to turn over the ruins. In the course of the afternoon, a large iron safe was dug out, and opened in the presence of the Attorney-General and several geeLleinen, when it was discovered that the whole of the contents were reduced to ashes. The safe is the property of Mr. Hillyard, who states that the contents were of gleat value, and in consequence of their destruction will pre,duce great inconvenience, not only to himself, but to other s to a greater extent. Mr. Ilillyard is insured to the amount of GOOL, which sum will not near cover his loss. The destruction of the house No. 13, is attributed to the construction of the roof, running into that of No. 14, and those of the whole range of buildings. The firemen had the same obstruction to contend with in the present instance, as °a the destruction of the Royal Exchange, which building was burnt in the same manner, with regard to the roofs, as in the Templ e . A t t h e commencement of the conflagration it was the intenrion of Mr. Braidwood to blow the roof off 'with gunpowder of No. 12, and sent to the Tower for assistance ; and by eight o'clock a file of artillery, under the command of Captain Bacon, marched into the Inner Temple. However, in the interim the powerful floating:engine was brought up to the Temple-gardens and was got to work, and by rattaching upwards of 1,000 feet of leather hose, was brought to bear on the roof, by which circumstance the range of buildings was preserved. It is a curious circumstance that the whole range of the buildings situated in the Temple are insured except those in Paper-buildings. A rather singular Coincidence is connected with the event—that on Monday last a Committee of the Hon. Company of Benchers took place for the purpose of taking into c.eisideration whether the houses in Paper-buildings shouldjbe insured or not ; but, as far as we could collect, no decision was come to. The last fire of any extent which occurred in the Temple was in 1782, when acme premises in King's Bench walk were totally consumed. Her Majesty's Attoreey-General, is, we understand a great sufferer, not being insured. The whole contents , of his chambers are consumed, including his library, valued at 3,000 guineas. Some papers and documents relative to real and personal property, and also respecting the Montague peerage, are burnt. --- CHURCH RATEs.---In consequence of Mr. Lim mer's opposition to Church Rates, and notwithstanding the opinion of the magistrates on his case, the Tory Churchwar den (with a spirit of rancour and bigotry which does credit to his cause,) yesterday caused a post to be erected at the end of the passage leading from Brook -street to 9t. Stephen's Church yard, and also to the warerooms of Mr. L., with the avowed pur pose of preventing the transit of goods to the latter premises. Green declares that he did this, solely because Mr. Limmer resists the payment of the Rates. This act, in violation of every tolerant and just principle, is exulted in by Mr. Green's party, and Mr. Bristo, who himself refused to pay the rate, and what is more, advised many of his neighbours not to pay it, was foremost in expressing his approbation of this unjus tifiable proceeding. Dissenters and Liberal (Thurelimen are alike loud in their denunciations of such conduct, and there is no doubt that Mr. Limmer will be suppc,rted by both, in any course he may, by proper counsel, ,teem correct to pursue. Verily, the system continues to worlt well l—Stifolk Chronicle. A tradesman who attends our market, and whose expenses for stallage, &c. (luring each day, amounts to 35., took, on Wednesday fort . aight, 2d. ; on th e f o ll ow i ng S aturday, 6d. ; and on Saturd.dy last, 12s. ; total for ex p enses , 93. ; re ceipts, 12s. Bd.--Nottingham R eview. BIRTH EXTRAORDINA RY.—O n Monday morn ing last, as a fly boat from Athy to Dublin was passing through the 18th dock, one of the passengers, a Mrs. M'Cann, of Castlecomer (who had never been on the canal before), be came very much agitated and alarmed, and in less than half an hour was seized with premature labour. There were only three other passengers in the after cabin, whom the captain of; the boat permitted to go into the first, leaving the other tie is. M`Cann, who, before she reached Sallins, added two boys and a girl to the number on board. On reach;:ag Dublin she was put into comfortable lodgings, and, w',Ch her three little one;, is getting on as well as possibl e , M'Canu, the husband, was also a passenger ' and seem e d highly delighted, these being his first-born. --Dubli n P a p er . BISHOP OF EXETER.—This has been a i s sad neglectedweek of tribulation to th e mee k an d am i a bl e Bi s h op who presides over the spiritual duties o f th e see — w h en no t otherwise en gagedvho h i : npol a it v i e cal be h e r l'elsftintoLtoarkideotnh.e care Le o bat us, our own s ou l s , h now offer up a sincere prayer for his. L e t us hope that he flock, will see the error of his ways—and being ultimately converted to Christianity, fiad him a pattern and an ornament to his di oce se, instead of a stumbling block and a reproach to his. more devout, but neglected flock.— IVestern Times. At Vienna, on the 21st tilt. (last Wednesday sen• night) the thermometer (Reaumur) marked 18 degrees belll4 Zero or 401 of Fahrenheit below the freezing point.